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Links between annual, Milankovitch and continuum temperature variability

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  • Peter Huybers

    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

  • William Curry

    (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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The long view of temperature The factors that influence Earth's temperature variability on the interannual scale are fairly well understood, but the same cannot be said of the controls on temperature variability at timescales of decades to millennia. Except for a few modes of climatic variability, these are usually described as random processes. Peter Huybers and William Curry add order to the proceedings by showing that temperature variability is linked across all timescales. There is a simple power-law relationship between surface temperature and the annual and Milankovitch period (23,000 and 41,000-year) cycles with intermediate timescales, driven by variation in solar radiation. This finding provides a framework by which to understand Earth's temperature variability, and to improve climate predictions at interannual and longer timescales.

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  • Peter Huybers & William Curry, 2006. "Links between annual, Milankovitch and continuum temperature variability," Nature, Nature, vol. 441(7091), pages 329-332, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:441:y:2006:i:7091:d:10.1038_nature04745
    DOI: 10.1038/nature04745
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    1. Mirzayof, Dror & Ashkenazy, Yosef, 2010. "Preservation of long range temporal correlations under extreme random dilution," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 389(24), pages 5573-5580.
    2. W. M. Schaffer, 2009. "A Surfeit of Cycles," Energy & Environment, , vol. 20(6), pages 985-996, October.
    3. Adriana Dutkiewicz & Slah Boulila & R. Dietmar Müller, 2024. "Deep-sea hiatus record reveals orbital pacing by 2.4 Myr eccentricity grand cycles," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-11, December.

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